Abstract: A system and a method for autonomous localization of a ground, surface or aerial vehicle with respect to a surface of a complex shape is disclosed. Localization is used by way of an optical flow method. Sensed optical (electro-optical, infrared, thermal) images are augmented by depth data, i.e., distance from the distance sensor to points on the sensed surface object. A modification of the optical flow method is applied to sequence of frames obtained in such a way to compute displacement of the vehicle with respect to the surface object.

Abstract: Throughput of a high-volume throughput-centric computer system is controlled by dynamically adjusting a concurrency level of a plurality of events being processed in a computer system to meet a predetermined target for utilization of one or more resources of a computer system. The predetermined target is less than 100% utilization of said one or more resources. The adjusted concurrency level is validated using one or more queuing models to check that said predetermined target is being met. Parameters are configured for adjusting the concurrency level. The parameters are configured so that said one or more resources are shared with one or more external programs. A statistical algorithm is established that minimizes total number of samples collected. The samples may be used to measure performance used to further dynamically adjust the concurrency level.

Abstract: Throughput of a high-volume throughput-centric computer system is controlled by dynamically adjusting a concurrency level of a plurality of events being processed in a computer system to meet a predetermined target for utilization of one or more resources of a computer system. The predetermined target is less than 100% utilization of said one or more resources. The adjusted concurrency level is validated using one or more queuing models to check that said predetermined target is being met. Parameters are configured for adjusting the concurrency level. The parameters are configured so that said one or more resources are shared with one or more external programs. A statistical algorithm is established that minimizes total number of samples collected. The samples may be used to measure performance used to further dynamically adjust the concurrency level.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer-usable media for storing program code for generating a customized graphical user interface for specified functions using generic base code are described. The methods include the automatic discovery and rendering of graphical user interface elements. User selected component data associated with the specified functions is stored in one or more structured markup language files, user selected style data is stored in one or more style specification files, and a merged file comprising the component data and the style data is generated. The merged file is converted into one or more executable applications for generating the customized graphical user interface by associating the component data contained in the merged file with generic base code.